Former Nay Aug Zoo in Scranton to become home to feral cats

Thursday

Aug 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM

PETER CAMERON

The Nay Aug Zoo, formerly a home to lions, elephants and monkeys, will now house feral cats.

The nonprofit group St. Cats & Dogs Inc. (pronounced "Street Cats") signed a lease with the city of Scranton on Friday to use the building to house cats it traps, spays or neuters and then release them, the group's founder, Joanne Davis, said Wednesday.

The five-year lease is for $1 annually.

The organization is currently working to rehabilitate the dilapidated interior of the zoo, which closed in 1989.

St. Cats & Dogs hopes to have a section of the zoo finished, and cats coming in and out, within two months, Ms. Davis said.

Felines will be released into the neighborhoods where they were trapped.